morainen.
/məˈreɪn/, /mɒˈreɪn/, U.S. /məˈreɪn/ 1. A mound, ridge, or other feature consisting of debris that has been carried and deposited by a glacier or ice sheet, usually at its sides or extremity; the till or similar material forming such a deposit.ablation, end, ground, lateral moraine, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun] > glacial mound
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > deposited by water, ice, or wind > [noun] > glacial > moraine
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1783 M. Berry Jrnl. 14 July (1865) I. 33 We found ourselves upon the moraine, a sort of wall or mound of gravel and stones.
1789 W. Coxe Trav. Switzerland II. xxxviii. 3 We crossed some snow..and immediately got upon the moraine, the term given to the stones and earth which the glaciers disgorge on each side.
1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) x. 225 This promontory was evidently a moraine, heaped up at a period when the glacier had greater dimensions.
1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man xv. 298 The lateral, medial, and terminal moraines of great glaciers.
1863 Q. Rev. 114 410 It seems to be moraine mud.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 159 We generally find, across the end of the glacier, a confused heap of rubbish, known as a terminal moraine.
1913 J. Muir Story of my Boyhood vi. 235 On the Hickory Hill farm there is a ridge of moraine material, rather dry, but flowery with goldenrods and asters of many species.
1930 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 86 112 Numerous lakes and pools lying in kettle-holes dot the surface of the moraine.
1983 C. Thubron Among Russians (1985) i. 14 The road from Minsk to Moscow followed a broad moraine, where glaciers had dragged out their track in the last Ice Age.
1995 Beautiful Brit. Columbia Summer 42/2 Great frozen rivers of ice race beneath our helicopter's skids. Then a wasteland of outwash moraine.
2. Horticulture. A flower bed made largely of stones covered with fine chippings, designed to produce conditions suitable for alpine plants.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > rock garden
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1907 R. J. Farrer My Rock-garden i. 14 There..is my toy-garden, my baby moraine, the particular pet joy of my heart.
1914 H. H. Thomas Rock Gardening 65 The moraine may be described as a bed or border of varying size, preferably situated on a slight slope, and consisting of broken stone, with which, however, a certain proportion of light, sifted soil is mixed.
1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Apr. 297/2 This [sc. bad drainage] is..the cause of most failures and disappointments in moraine gardening.
1961 W. Ingwersen in W. E. Shewell-Cooper et al. Alpine & Rock Gardening vi. 43 If one moraine is to be divided into limestone and lime-free compartments, then the limestone area must be at the bottom.
1986 E. Dally & C. Carpenter Longman Gardener's Dict. 155 Moraine beds can be created by using small stone chippings with a water supply below.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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